Collar-fastener



.I. B. MAXFIELD.

COLLAR FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1919.

11 336 147 Patent ed Apr. 6, 1920.

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JAMES BENJAMIN MAXFIELD, 0F SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

COLLAR-FASTENER.

Application filed July 3, 1919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J AMEs BENJAMIN MAXFIELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in collar fasteners, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive fastener of light, resilient material, so shaped that it may be easily engaged with the buttonhole of the collar and with the buttonhole of the shirt, which will automatically adjust itself to any thickness of collar or collarband and which will lie fiat against the neck when in place.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a partial perspective view of a collar looking from the inner side with the fastener in place;

*Fig. 2 is a rear view of the fastener;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view;

Fig. 4; is an end view.

In the present embodiment of the invention the improved fastener, which is formed from light resilient material, as, for instance, ivory, celluloid or like metal, consists of a body 1 of elongated shape, having at the center of one side thereof a laterally extending tongue 2.

At each side of the tongue the body has wings 3 extending in the same direction as the tongue at its commencement, and the tongue is bent over upon the body as shown. This tongue is of less width at its con1- mencement than farther along in its length so that it is connected to the body by a reduced neck 4, as shown, and the wings extend beyond the bend of the tongue as shown in Fig. 2.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Serial No. 303,354.

The neck 4 extends at an acute angle with respect to the plane of the body, as shown in Fig. &, and the tongue is of such length that when bent as above specified it will extend beyond the opposite edge of the body, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The tongue also tapers toward the point, and it is curved longitudinally, the concave face lying toward the body.

In use, the tongue is inserted through the buttonhole 5 of the collar 6, after being inserted through the buttonhole of the collar band. The tongue extends down between the two plies of the collar and the reduced neck, and the acute angle which the neck forms with the body prevents disengagement of the collar by downward movement. To disengage the collar it must first be moved upward over the angular bend between the neck and the body and then clownward. The fastener is easily inserted because of the tapering tongue, and the collar is firmly held in place without possibility of disengagement after the fastener is in place.

The wings 3 engage the inner face of the inner plyof the collar, preventing such upward movement of the collar accidentally.

I claim:

A collar fastener comprising an elongated body portion having a laterally extending tongue at approximately the center of one side, said tongue having a reduced neck connecting it with the body and being bent backwardly upon the body with the neck at an acute angle to the plane of the body and with an abrupt bend between the neck and the body, said tongue being of greater length than the width of the body and gradually tapering from just beyond the neck to the free end.

JAMES BENJAMIN MAXFIELD. 

